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Thick
·adv Frequently; fast; quick. II. Thick ·noun A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. III. Thick ·superl Dee...

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thick
Intimate. They are as thick as two inkle-weavers. ...

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thick
1) Intimate; familiar. 'They are very thick just now.' Provincial in the North of England, and in Yo...

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thick
intimate, frequent, plentiful. Also stupid. North. ...

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Knee
·vt To supplicate by kneeling. II. Knee ·noun In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg. III...

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knee
Naturally grown timber, or bars of iron, bent to a right angle, or to fit the surfaces, and to secur...

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Thick wind
·- A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the sign...

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Thick-headed
·adj Having a thick skull; stupid. ...

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Thick-skinned
·adj Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. ...

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Thick-skulled
·adj Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn. ...

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Thick-winded
·adj Affected with thick wind. ...

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Thick clay
(Hab. 2:6) is correctly rendered in the Revised Version "pledges." The Chaldean power is here repres...

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thick stuff
Sided timber, or naval planks, under one foot, and above 4 inches in thickness. ...

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Knee jerk
·add. ·- A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, wh...

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Knee-crooking
·adj Obsequious; fawning; cringing. ...

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Knee-deep
·adj Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. II. Knee-deep ·adj Rising to the knees; knee-hi...

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Knee-high
·adj Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high. ...

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Knock-knee
·noun A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee. ...

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red-knee
n. sometimes called the Red-kneedDottrel, Charadrius ruftveniris, formerly Erythrogonys cinctus, Go...

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dagger-knee
A substitute for the hanging-knee, applied to the under side of the lodging-knee; it is placed out o...

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gammon-knee
A knee-timber fayed and bolted to the stem, a little below the bowsprit. ...

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heel-knee
The compass-piece which connects the keel with the stern-post. ...

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knee-timber
That sort of crooked timber which forms at its back or elbow an angle of from 24° to 45°; but the mo...

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stem-knee
In ship-building, the compass-timber which connects the keel with the stem. (See dead-wood knees.) ...

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stern-knee
Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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hanging standard-knee
A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...

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thick and thin block
, or fiddle-block. A block having one sheave larger than the other, sometimes used for quarter-blo...

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knee of the head
A large flat piece of timber, fixed edgeways, and fayed upon the fore-part of a ship's stem, support...

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thick-and-dry for weighing!
To clap on nippers closely, just at starting the anchor from the ground. ...

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